Friday, August 5, 2005

GORE TV IS OUT OF DATE

Grandiose rhetoric about technological frontiers, of course, has always been Al Gore's specialty—he'll never live down his much-ridiculed boast to Wolf Blitzer on CNN, when he claimed that, as a US congressman, he "took the initiative in creating the Internet." But in the case of Current, Gore's entrepreneurial ambitions had to be seriously downsized. (Slate.msn.com, 08/03/05.)